What is EMC VNX?

Dell EMC VNX is a family of enterprise-grade unified file and block storage systems. The Dell EMC VNX family of storage systems combines data storage scalability and flexibility with industry-leading simplicity and efficiency, reducing the total costs of ownership and operation of the storage system.

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How do I access EMC VNX?

You can go via: the SP’s management port: http://<SP IP address>:9519; the SP’s service port: https://128.221.1.250:9519 (SP A) or https://128.221.1.251:9519 (SP B); and. the SP’s serial port: https://192.168.1.1:9519 (this assumes you’re connected via serial already – more on that below).

What is VMAX and VNX?

And, of course, there are connectivity differences: the VNX has integrated NAS and the VMAX requires a separate gateway. The VMAX supports mainframes, iSeries and a few untypical host types out there; the VNX doesn’t. And, of course, some of the software functionality is very different: TimeFinder, SRDF, etc.

What is Vnx architecture?

The EMC VNX series implements a modular architecture that integrates hardware components for Block, File, and Object with concurrent support for native NAS, Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), Fiber Channel, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols.

Is Vnx a NAS or SAN?

The VNX systems provide a wide set of connectivity options for block access and for file access as a NAS system.

What is the difference between VNX and unity?

Dell EMC Unity is the improved version of EMC VNX. It has all the features in VNX with better performance. NetApp all flash is faster and more expensive. It performs better with Citrix systems and VDI solutions.

What is control station in Vnx?

Control Station – CS – Normally preceded by “Primary” or “Secondary” as there are at least 1, but most often 2 control stations per VNX system. It is the job of the control station to handle management of the File or Unified components in a VNX system. Block only VNX arrays do not utilize a control station.

How do I change my sysadmin password in Vnx?

Log in by using the user that you would like to change the password for such as sysadmin, nasadmin, or root.
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Instructions

Select the system in the System drop-down menu in the upper left.
Go to Settings and select Change Password.
Type your Old Password and your New password.

What is EMC VMAX storage array?

The VMAX series is a family of enterprise storage arrays designed for SAN environments. Turbonomic connects to VMAX storage systems via an EMC SMI-S provider that has the disk arrays added to it. A single SMI-S provider can communicate with one or more disk arrays.

What is difference between VMAX2 and VMAX3?

VMAX2 is a block-only platform. With Hypermax OS, the VMAX3 offers not only both block and file protocols, but also allows for connection to cloud gateway services. Lastly, Hypermax OS has deeper integration with other offerings in the EMC portfolio: for management, integration with ViPR.

How do you make a LUN in EMC VNX?

How to create a Thin Provisioned LUN on a EMC VNX SAN – via Unisphere

What is data mover in Vnx?

A Virtual Data Mover (VDM) is an EMC® VNX™ software feature that enables the grouping of Common Internet File Systems (CIFS) and/or Network File Systems (NFS) environments and servers into virtual containers.

What is VNX gateway?

Each VNX Series Gateway product—the VG2 or VG8—is a dedicated network server optimized for file access and advanced functionality in a scalable, easy-to-use package.

What are the OS for EMC storage?

Storage Array (SAN/NAS) operating systems (OS) list.

Array Vendor	Operating System Name	Type of array
EMC VNX	Operating environment for block Operating environment for file	SAN NAS
EMC Isilon	OneFS	NAS
EMC Symmetrix VMAX	Enginuity	SAN
EMC VPLEX	GeoSynchrony	SAN

Is Dell unity NAS or SAN?

Dell EMC Unity OE provides block LUN, VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) and NAS file system storage access.

How do I check my NAS services?

Checking the status of NAS File Services components

Open an ssh session to the Linux server.
Check the SnapCenter Plug-in Loader (SPL) status: /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/spl/bin/spl status.
Check the Java process for the SPL to verify that it is present: ps -ef | grep spl.

How do I reset my data domain sysadmin password?

Change the sysadmin password in the Data Domain Operating System.
Procedure

To log in with an SSH session, enter: ssh -l sysadmin <host_name>
To change the sysadmin password, enter: user change password.
To change the password and then enter the new password, press Enter.

What is the difference between Vmax and PowerMax?

PowerMax takes much from the existing VMAX architecture but brings significant upgrades such as support for NVMe flash drives and inline data deduplication. Like the current VMAX AF, PowerMax implements a multi-controller architecture based on so-called “PowerBricks”.

What is difference between Vmax and VMAX3?

VMAX3 inherited the same engine based concept from VMAX. Basic building block for VMAX3 is Engines. Engine consists of two redundant director boards (controllers) that house global memory, front-end connectivity, back-end connectivity & internal network communications components.

What is difference between VMAX3 and PowerMax?

Dell says PowerMax has twice the rack density of VMAX and a 40 per cent lower power consumption. NVMe SSD support is added and PowerMax is ready for the inclusion of both NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMe-oF) and storage-class memory.

What is EMC VMAX3?

EMC VMAX3. Give mission-critical file, block and mainframe workloads what they demand with EMC VMAX3 enterprise storage arrays. Designed as a data services platform, VMAX3 lets you provision resources to meet service level objectives in a single click.

What is Meta LUN in Vnx?

metaLUNs allow an increase of available bandwidth or throughput, or LUN capacity, by adding hard disks. metaLUNS are functionally similar to volumes created with host volume managers, but with some important distinctions. Any Traditional LUN (or metaLUN) which is not a private LUN may be expanded.

What is LUN size?

Supported sizes are from 1 to 16 TiB in increments of 1 GiB. The supported ESS LUN sizes are limited to the exact sizes that are specified from 0.1 to 982.2 GB (decimal) in increments of 0.1 GB and are rounded up to the next larger 32 K byte boundary.

What is NAS VDM?

A Virtual Data Mover (often called VDM) is software feature that enables the grouping of CIFS and/or NFS and servers into virtual containers. It is possible to separate CIFS (and/or NFS) from each other and from associated environment.

What is EMC SAN storage?

EMC provides solutions for storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) environments. EMC FC5300, FC4500 and FC4700-2 fiber channel storage arrays provide highly available storage for a variety of workgroup, midrange and enterprise applications.